Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0882478

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0882478

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Digestive Physiology of Crocodilians: Towards an Improved Diet and Feeding Regime for Use by the Farming Industry. Crocodile farming promotes the sustainable production and consumption of crocodile products without harming natural populations. The industry grosses over $15 million per year in Australia and $200 million worldwide. Costs associated with transporting and storing food are the single largest expense that crocodile farms have. Increases in the efficiency of converting food into growth will have positive economic benefits to the industry. Efficiencies can be produced by (1) increasing food absorption, (2) decreasing the energetic costs of digestion, and (3) producing a new food that is less expensive to ship and store. This project will directly address the first two of these and will lay the foundation for the development of the third.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-09-2008

End Date: 30-06-2012

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $252,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative Physiology | Animal Nutrition | Animal Growth And Development | Animal Production

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Primary products from animals | Hides and skins | Livestock not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Animal Growth And Development | Animal Nutrition | Animal Production | Comparative Physiology | Hides and skins | Livestock not elsewhere classified | Primary products from animals

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